Glove and method of making the same



S. E. BENJAMIN ET AL GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed March 25,1929 Dec. 17, 1929.

ends]! 1. 101a Y ATTOR N EYS WITNESSES Patented Dec. 17, 1929 UNITEDSTATES Pasteur OFFICE SCHUYLER E. BENJAMIN AND WENDELL P. MURRAY, 0FGLOVERSVILLE, NEW YoRK,

ASSIGNORS TO LOUIS MEYERS & son, me, or NEW YoRK, N.. Y., A CORPORATION7 OF NEW YORK GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Application filedMarch 23, 1929. Serial No. 349,414.

' vention being to provide a slip-on glove having no fastening devicesand having a, slit or opening at the side thereof, said glove having anintegral, inwardly turned hem, pref erably relatively wide, joined to afinishing strip in such a manner as .to provide a neat and attractiveappearance and one which is strong and durable in use.

A further object is to provide a glove 'of this character which willhave a distinctly novel, sporting appearance with strongly reinforcededges and neatly rounded corners so constructed that the Wrist, cufl orgaunt-let portion may be worn straight or folded back upon itself, asdesired.

With these and other obiects in View, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out intheclaims.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a plan view of the gloveblank;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the upper.

end or cuff, wrist or gauntlet portion of the glove showing the firststep in the method of constructing the glove;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing the next step in themethod of forming the glove;

F igure 4 is a view similar to Figures 2 and 3 showing the final step orcompleted glove construction Figure 5 is a view in elevation lookinginto the inside of the cuif portion of the glove with the same spreadopen to illustrate the construction of the cuff.

1 represents the glove blank and our imroved blank differs from anordinary glove Elank in that it has an extension or hem portion 2 at theupper end or wrist portion of the glove with notches 3 at the edges ofthe blank, the walls of said notches being curved so that when the hem 2is folded down onto the blank or body portion of the glove on the lineindicated by'the dot and dash line 4 the corners of the glove at thewrist portion will be neatly rounded."

We would have it understood. that we employ this reference character 1to indicate not only the blank but the glove generally, but as ourinvention has particularly to do with the upper end or wrist portion ofthe glove it is not necessary to describe in detail the manner ofassembling the palm and finger portions of the glove as we follow, thecommon well known practice or method in the construction of this portionof the glove.

The upper end of the glove is referred to by many different names suchas the wrist port-ion, the Fcufl or the gauntlet but to avoid repetitionwe shall hereinafter refer to this portion of the glove as the cuffportion. The inner portion of the glove is designated as the palmportion while the other portion will be referred to as the back portionfor the purpose of identification.

,The blank 1 is folded and secured along one edge by a line of stitching5 which terslip-on glove and which is free from buttons or fasteningdevices of any character.

The construction of this cuff portion of the glove is what constitutesour invention and which will now bedescribed in detail.

As above stated, the glove has a relatively. wide hem 2 constituting anintegral part of the cuff portion. In constructing the glove a borderstrip 6 is secured to the edge of the hem 2 at its extremities,preferably by stitching 7. This is indicated in Figure 2 of the drawingand constitutes the first step attractive appearance.

in the formation of the cuff portion of the glove.

The hem 2 is then folded against the outside of the cuff and the edge ofthe strip 6 is secured to the edge of the glove by a line of stitching8, which line of stitching extends around the curved corners of the cutfformed by the notches 3 so as to give a neat and attractive, strong anddurable finish to the glove at these points. The strip 6 outlines theopening or slit in the side of the glove and is secured at one edge onlyto the glove by the lines of stitching 8. This step in the method ofmaking the glove is shown 3learl y in Figure 3 of the drawings.

The next step in the method is to turn the hem 2 and the strip 6inwardly against the inner face of the glove and secure the strip 6 andthe hem 2 by a line of stitching 9, which may be an overhand stitch or aglove machine stitch, as desired. This is indicated in Figures 4 and 5of the'drawings so that the-glove when finished has a neat and It willthus be noted that by reason of our improved construction and method weproduce a novel glove of the slip-on type, fully reinforced andstrengthened where strains and wear are most apt to occur.

Various changes and alterations might be made in the general form of theparts de scribed without departing from our invention and hence we donot limit ourselves to the precise details set forth but considerourselves at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall,within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

We claim:

1. The herein described method of making gloves, including the provisionof a glove blank having'a hem at its cuff portion and notches at itsedges adjacent the hem, first securing the glove at the edges thereof,then securing a strip to the edges of the hem at the ends of the hem,then turning the hem outwardly and locating the strip against the edgesof the body of the glove, then sewing one edge of the strip to the edgesofthe glove, then folding the hem and the strip inwardly, and finallysecuring the strip and I the hem to the glove by a line of stitching.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a slipon glove having a palm portionand a back "portion, a line of stitching extendin for a portion of thelength of a pair of a jacent edges of the palm and back portions forsecuring said edges together and terminating short of the cuff portionof the glove to provide a slit or opening at the cuff portion, anintegral hem on the glove secured against the inner face of the glove, astrip secured at its ends to the edges of thehem, said strip at itsedges secured to the edges of the Walls of the slit in the glove anddisposed entirely within the glove, and a line of stitching viding anadditional reinforcement at this 1 point, the inner portion of the stripbeing isposed at the end of the first-mentioned line of stitching.

SCHUYLER E. BENJAMIN. WENDELL P. MURRAY.

